Investigation in transfer learning: Better way to apply transfer learning between agents

Abstract

This paper propose to investigate a better way to apply Transfer Learning (TL) between agents to speed up the Q-learning Reinforcement Learning algorithm and combines Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and Heuristically Accelerated Reinforcement Learning (HARL) techniques. The experiments were made comparing differents approaches of Transfer Learning were actions learned in the acrobot problem can be used to speed up the learning of the policies of stability for Robocup 3D. The results confirm that the same Transfer Learning information can show differents results, depending how is applied. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.